Court. His team is making highstakes arguments trying to get the documents case thrown out. The change in the plans for the judge and what clues it may give us. The highest ranking official in the senate, Chuck Schumer calling for elections in israel to replace the Prime Minister. What it could mean for u. S. Israeli Relations and the war in gaza. And a small city in oklahoma elected a White Nationalist into office. Now, it faces the question of whether it will be able to vote him out. This hour well take you inside that recall effort. We start in a florida courtroom, where judge Aileen Cannon has heard arguments to get the case dismissed. They cited no precedent for a former president. The Special Counsels response, quote theres never been a situation remotely close to this one. A second motion will be argued today, that the president has virtually unreviewable authority to designate president atrecords as personal, and stash them in unlocked rooms at maralago. I took them very legall
court. these are the most recent pictures. his motorcade travelled a short distance from one of his residences. that is his vehicle they are going into the car park underneath the courtroom there. we have heard from a spokesperson of donald trump in the last half hour. let s take a listen. the executive branch has the power to classify documents. the decision to classify documents. the decision to pursue charges against president trump while turning a blind eye to others is emblematic of the corruption that we have here. we are at a turning point in our nations history. the targeting, prosecution, of a leading political opponent, is the type of thing you see in dictatorships like cuba and venezuela. it is commonplace for viable candidates to be prosecuted, persecuted, and put into jail. what is being done to the president trump should terrify all citizens of this country. these are not the ideals that our democracy is founded upon. this is not our america. thank you. so what
this was the moment he arrived at the prime minister s residence in rome, where he was greeted by italian president sergio mattarella. shortly after this, he met the italian prime minister, giorgia meloni. she s been one of ukraine s more vocal backers, although polls suggest that italian people overall are opposed to sending ukraine more weapons, as are some of her coalition partners. more now from the bbc s sofia bettiza in rome. more than 1000 security officers have been deployed in rome today. this is the first time the president zelensky visits italy since russia invaded ukraine last year. he has had a meeting with his counterpart, the italian president. they had a private meeting that lasted for about 25 minutes and some of the things that they discussed were economic sanctions against russia, the kidnapping of ukrainian children, the need to step up the fight against pro kremlin fake news and ukrainejoining the european union. after the meeting, president zelensky said
illegal annex president this was his first visit since ordering a full scale invasion of ukraine 13 months ago. now bbc news. it s the media show. my guest today has covered some of the most defining stories of our time. gary younge briefly became part of nelson mandela s entourage, joined revellers as president obama was elected, and has covered much else too gay marriage, brexit, the windrush scandal, and the black lives matter movement. gary left full time journalism at the guardian in 2020 to become professor of sociology at the university of manchester. although he continues to write articles for various publications and books. his new one is a collection of his journalism called dispatches from the diaspora. gary younge, welcome to the media show. let s go back to some of where it all began. you studied french and russian at heriot watt university in edinburgh, and then in your final year you received a scott trust bursary from the guardian to study journalism. and i
hello everyone, it is 4:00 in new york on a big newsday, just got a rare and unique and potentially alarming look into judicial process that is typically shrouded in secrecy and one that has been characterized as potentially the most damaging to the twice impeached, disgraced ex- president right now, of course the special grand jury investigation in fulton county, georgia, yesterday in a very revealing interview with our own blaine alexander, the juries for woman spoke out about the months long investigation and confirmed that the jury recommended indictments for multiple people. while she did not disclose specific names, she gave some pretty telling hints. i will tell you it is not a shortlist. we saw 75 people, and 6 pages of the report cut out, i think, if you look at the page numbers. so it s not we are talking about more than a dozen people? bigger i would say that, yes. did the grand jury recommend an indictment of former president trump? bigger i m not goi